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Friend told me my weekly spread was way too cluttered
They said my layout had too many sections and it was stressing them out just looking at it. I cut down to just 3 boxes per day with a tiny habit tracker at the bottom and suddenly I'm actually using the thing. Anyone else had to simplify after someone called you out on it?
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sagey692mo ago
Oh boy, my first bullet journal looked like a schematic for a spaceship! I feel your pain, I had to trim mine down to "must do" and "maybe do" before it stopped feeling like a chore.
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evan1512mo ago
3 pages in and I already gave up on color coding. Keep it simple, @sagey69, that's the only way it sticks. Overcomplicating it just makes you hate your own to-do list.
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gonzalez.anna13d ago
Oh man, I did the exact same thing actually. My first try had separate boxes for morning, afternoon, evening, plus a meal tracker, water tracker, and like five different categories of tasks. A friend just looked at it and said "this looks like homework." So I switched to one main box per day with a tiny dot grid for any extra notes, and a single row of habit dots at the bottom. Now it actually takes me 2 minutes to set up each day instead of 20, and I don't dread looking at it.
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